Pre-Relativity
- prehistory: Aristotelian and Galilean spacetime, relativity
- the ether?
- Michelson & Morley experiment
Special Relativity
- principle of relativity
- the price: relativity of simultaneity
- Gedankenexperiment--light clock:
animations here
and here
- other consequences:
length contraction
time dilation
- relativity, mass, and energy
nonrelativistic vs ultrarelativistic motions
- experimental tests:
live events
from ATLAS experiment in CERN
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